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2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

The protests were picked up and reported live by Sky News. No doubt other media outlets too, but I don't check them.

Even the American news networks are reporting this as well.

Not a good look for Thailand and the Junta

The longer Thailand keeps it's borders closed the longer it will take to recover to pre-covid-19 tourist numbers.

It's a pity that the Junta don't pay as much attention to road deaths as they do covid-19

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I never did believe.

Neither did anyone with any sort of intelligence, but some did and it doesn't take much to work out who

Treble it and people might believe it

41 minutes ago, JGV said:

Reality check The tourists with the cash to spend come for the entertainment - alcohol and women - Yes Chines visit but they don't spend money and that's the same for all Asians so until a vaccine arrives Tourism will continue to struggle so don't believe this govt comment

I seriously doubt if the Thai economy will ever recover from this.

The junta have just used covid-19 as an excuse to control the populous and clearly nobody of intelligence believes the low covid-19 deaths in Thailand.

If the junta were serious about saving people lives they would get serious about the amount of road deaths in Thailand every year, but they are not.

18 hours ago, wabothai said:

you mean Belarus

Both. The educated people don't want dictatorships. They want democracy.

59 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I don't think business acumen is the most important quality in a government leader most are looking for right now...and the Thai business and financial elites are very invested in whatever government happens to be in power at the moment, and you can be assured that they would never allow it to take any economic steps for which the country could never recover.

It's already going down the route.

It's very doubtful if Thailand will ever recover from the situation it's in now with zero tourists and a overvalued baht.

2 minutes ago, ashkale said:

Getting tired of this fear mongering. NZ was shut for months and still got new cases of whatever sickness this is. Its a matter of time before economic woes push people out on the streets.

They are already out there.

The intelligent Thais are aware that their country is heading into the abyss. The uneducated one's aren't

Tourism creates jobs, but the generals can't seem to grasp it.

On 8/12/2020 at 10:18 AM, steven100 said:

COVID19 has caused an absolute world disaster. It has exasperated the suffering of the poor.

It has expedited the suffering of the lower class and middle class income earners.

It has cost millions upon millions of jobs worldwide.

It has or will cause families to lose homes, cars and other worldly possessions.

As confirmed, this disaster was initiated & instigated by China as such they are responsible for all of the above.

The actions of the generals is delivering a financial blow to Thailand which it will never recover from. The generals have shown that they have zero business acuman

11 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:

I thought foreign tourism was only 9% of Thai GDP ???? 

 

It is the ONLY thing they talk about. 

????

17 hours ago, marinediscoking said:

I love reading the ranting trump haters posts, their heads are exploding.  How many times do we have to have to hear that he is cancelling the Constitution and that he is worse than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined?

Fat Boy tRumps head is going to explode in November when he's voted out of the White House.

Bye bye Fat Boy, hello Joe ????

What's happening in Beirut will come to the LOS soon with ever growing unemployment rate.

3 hours ago, marinediscoking said:

I love reading the ranting trump haters posts, their heads are exploding.  How many times do we have to have to hear that he is cancelling the Constitution and that he is worse than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined?

We will know more when tRump makes public his tax returns, like other POTUS's

How can anybody vote for a 5 times draft dodger who had a complaint that nobody had of heard before or since.

It's a pity that those in government here don't pay more attention to road deaths, which even according to the Thai authorities are among the worse if not the worse in the world.

Why are the Thai authorities paying no attention what so ever about the amount of roads in Thailand year after year.?

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

Can't you have a discussion without insults?

Well even you would agree that he is Fat, hence why he's called the Fat Boy, or Fat Boy tRump.

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

 200 million in 1982 is NOT many billions today

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

What don't you understand.

Why is the Fat Boy hiding his tax returns if he's as wealthy as you think?

It's obvious surely to you that the Fat Boy is hiding his tax returns for a reason

10 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

How can he be a billionaire and his companies have declared bankruptcy 6 times ? Any claims of being a billionaire and successful come from trump. There is a reason we dont get to see his tax returns.

Correct. The Fat Boy has a lot to hide

28 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Was his father a billionaire and as successful as Donald? I doubt it.

In today terms the Fat Boys old man would be a multi billionaire. Such was his wealth.

25 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Was his father a billionaire and as successful as Donald? I doubt it.

The Fat Boy hasn't been successful. You really need to do some homework before posting on here.

Why doesn't the Fay Boy want his tax returns made public when every POTUS in recent times has?

If Thailand doesn't want farang tourists I'm sure other countries will welcome them with open arms.

Once Farang tourists see how much more they get for their tourist money in other countries very few will be coming back here.